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stoneknapper en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of stone knapper.
    • The size and nature of available raw material, the limited technological means available to shape it, the size of the human body itself, the strength of the average stoneknapper and tool users and the kinds of tasks in which tools were to be […] 2009, Leslie G. Freeman, Anthropology Without Informants: Collected Works in Paleoanthropology:
    • Dick thought he was a "surveyor" or "stoneknapper," as the members of the geological survey were called. 1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, A Galloway Herd, page 202:
    • This greater focus and increased control enabled the stoneknapper to produce sharper, straighter edges, resulting in a more efficient implement. This Acheulian stone tool became standardized as the basic H. erectus all-purpose tool ... 1998, Robert Jurmain, Selected material from Essentials of physical anthropology, third edition, →ISBN:
    • Celibacy is a stage in human evolution, the last[…] the last light step in a progress that began with the small Javan stoneknapper, Australopithecus, and the mute little African, Pithecanthropus. 1984, Brian Swann, Another Story: A Novella, →ISBN:
    • Deshati was in training to become a stoneknapper before the Guardians found her, and she asks Nassun all sorts of questions about her father. 2016, N. K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate, Orbit, →ISBN:

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